Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study by Boeing Aerospace Co. suggests the feasibility of producing a 38-ft. intercontinental ballistic missile (SICBM) that would have a range comparable to the 7,500 miles covered by the 71-ft. MX. Its single warhead would probably carry a 500-kiloton punch, in contrast to MX's ten warheads, each with a 330-kiloton, independently targeted payload. Some Pentagon experts contend that a design breakthrough will permit the small missile to be moved about on a heavily armored vehicle dubbed the Armadillo. This launcher would be anchored when firing and be stable enough to handle the missile...
...Atlanta policemen who were shot and a fourth who was beaten had little chance of recovering from the down-and-outers who injured them, but they went to court anyway. Explained their lawyer, William McKenney: "The public thinks that when they see a blue uniform they can take a punch at it, that the police officer can take it. But police officers want to be treated as human beings." Nor was money the whole point when Elliott Jones, widow of Washington Cardiologist and Author Michael Halberstam, sued her husband's killer, a millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones...
...Regan certainly has no qualms about what has happened to his game since that trying experience. After a slow start this year. O'Regan rose to the top of his game and displayed the scoring punch that the Terriers had been lacking the past four years. At year's end both his assist and point totals were B.U.'s highest in four years...
Bennett and the other residents of The town (pop. 2,000), a Missouri hamlet 25 miles southwest of St. Louis, are confused and frightened. In recent weeks they have been hit with a one-two punch that leaves them wondering where to turn next. First, on Dec. 5, the waters of the Meramec swept through the town in the worst flood in Times Beach's history. The town, which sprang up in the 1920s as a summer resort and later became a permanent working-class community, is now a picture of near desolation. A muddy brown film coats...
...when they fall to fisticuffs, as inevitably they must (in movies like this it is only by fighting that men can become friends), the whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think...